Valery Asapov

Valery Asapov (died 24 September 2017) was a Lieutenant-General of the Russian Army during the Donbass War and the Syrian Civil War. He was killed by the Islamic State during the fighting around Deir ez-Zor in 2017.

Biography
Valery Asapov was a veteran of the Donbass War, during which he was in command of an army corps of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine; he would later rise to the rank of Lieutenant-General and become an army commander. Asapov was later posted to Syria as one of Russia's top-ranking advisers with the Syrian Arab Army, and he was sent to oversee the liberation of Deir ez-Zor from the Islamic State. On 24 September 2017, he was killed when the Islamic State's mortars shelled his command post in the city.